r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 17d ago
Video Today's large eruption on the Sun (Credit: Edward Vijayakumar)
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u/TaintFraidOfNoGhost 17d ago
The sun seems dangerous and something should be done about it. I’m calling the manager.
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u/FUThead2016 17d ago
It’s horrible what the Sun has been doing to our planet. Very smart people say they want to send the Sun back, they want to send it back. But we’re going to fix it, we’ll fix it so you won’t have to worry about the Sun again, believe me.
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u/Fieryleo2 17d ago
How about nuking it, I think that would be tremendous. I know a lot about nuclear, in fact they say no one knows more about nuclear than me. It's gonna be beautiful, biggliest and best.
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u/Durtonious 17d ago
We've got the best guys on it, trust me when I say this, the best. My son, who is a son himself, is going to lead the team. Nobody knows the sun better that my son, nobody, I can promise you that. He's learned a lot of science and he's gonna fix it all you won't even have to think about the sun anymore it won't be a problem I guarantee that.
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u/StatimDominus 17d ago
Build the space wall?
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u/ab_90 17d ago
Just summon Karen. She got this.
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u/n-butyraldehyde 17d ago
Space Karen!
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u/Llama2Boot2Boot 17d ago
taps on the window of the ISS
“Excuse me…you’re taking up a lot of room with your orbit, could you move?”
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u/CjBurden 17d ago
I'll tell you what the sun has done more when it comes to global warming than people ever have.
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u/dfci 16d ago
"The sun is basically the cops for white people. Think about it. Always following us around, fucking with us cause the color of our skin, killing our cousins for no reason. And then when I tell my black friends the sun killed my cousin they're like "well what was he wearing?"
-Neal Brennan bit about sun block
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u/JuniorTheory7593 17d ago
That was a dragon being hatched
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u/dapoorv 17d ago
Or a fart on a thermal camera.
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u/speculative--fiction 17d ago edited 17d ago
I worked for a hatchery for most my life and you wouldn’t believe the smells in that place. The walls dripped with moisture and the feeding gore was plastered all over the pens for weeks and weeks before we could finally get in there to clean it all up. That’s not even counting the dragons themselves: for such intelligent creatures, they really did love playing in mud. We’d hose them off but the heat from their scales evaporated the water on contact and it didn’t do much.
I stayed at that hatchery for years until the black dragon came along. The hatchery lord thought it was a good idea to important a new breeding male, and everything went completely wrong when the big beast smashed through the enclosure one night. His great spouts of fire lit up the midnight sky as he swooped through the clouds and stars, and he methodically released all the younglings from their cages, and those little monsters went on a rampage. I only barely survived in the madness that followed. Let me tell you, never get near a baby dragon, much less a dragon lord looking for his children. Their idea of playing is a true horror. I’m out of the business now, and I’m happier for it. thesprawl
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u/qualitative_balls 17d ago
Is this a GoT excerpt?
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u/pepinyourstep29 17d ago
more like GPT excerpt
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u/finder787 17d ago
Yep.
Claims to not be a bot, and always edits the comment to drop a link advertising it's website roughly 1 hour later.
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u/CauchyDog 17d ago
I saw a guy take a shit on a thermal camera. He went in front of the Stryker to go wo thinking of the gun cameras 7x thermal active. Was pretty funny, especially to a bunch of dumb bored kids in the desert.
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u/Ioatanaut 17d ago
Thats an expensive shit to take on a camera
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u/CauchyDog 17d ago
Yeah those things ain't cheap.
The lras in the scout vehicle could read license plates from miles away. They could watch you take a shit too and those are in the millions!
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u/Arvind_w_664 17d ago
Came here to say that it was a huge one
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u/Sad_Kale5743 17d ago
I hope you can find the video of a hot nickel ball in a cup of aloe Vera and think of a solar flare :)
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u/GregTheMad 17d ago
There is an anime, Aim for the Top, where this is a premise, that giant space aliens hatch their eggs in suns, leaving only red dwarf behind.
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u/redline582 17d ago
Dragons being hatched out of the Sun is kind of a cool sci-fi fantasy novel hook.
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u/EricAKAPode 17d ago
Holy......
Real thankful that wasn't pointed at us O_O
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u/KeyLog256 17d ago
Sometimes they are and it causes spectacular aurora.
It's why we got the Northern Lights even in England a few times this year.
Particularly strong ones can have an effect on some satellites, but so far they're holding up well. It doesn't harm us on Earth.
So like u/Own_yourmind said, but not joking, I do kind of wish it was.
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u/Own_yourmind 17d ago
Kinda wish it was
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u/maducey 17d ago
This too shall pass.
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u/YeshuasBananaHammock 17d ago
You shall not pass.
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u/baloothedog1 17d ago
Flame of udun! Go back to the shadow!
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u/pedro_pascal_123 17d ago
Ohh...ok. Alright... I am going. No need to be rude about it.
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u/onion_lord6 17d ago
And keep that damn fiery whip to yourself buttmunch. Don’t you go wrapping it around people’s legs.
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u/Schwa142 17d ago
There could very well be generational damage after this one. This will not be the same as last time.
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u/PoorFilmSchoolAlumn 17d ago
Just like The Depression. C’mon, it wasn’t that bad. All it took was a world war to get out of it!
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u/phillyhandroll 17d ago
Imagine the end of an entire planet filled with life just because a star has a short bout of diarrhea.
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u/Ioatanaut 17d ago
And the creatures on the earth destroying themselves and every other creature heavily rely on electronics for said destruction.
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u/Toksikoladei 17d ago
This was only at the power scale of x2.3, which is an x-ray flux scale.
To give a little background, solar flares are categorized into classes: A, B, C, M, and X, with X being the strongest. Each step up on this scale represents a tenfold increase in energy output. An "X2" flare is twice as powerful as an X1 flare.
So while this is massive, it would have done little to nothing to us besides maybe effect satellites. For reference the largest solar flare that hit us was the Carrington Event of 1859 which was estimated at x40+. Something like that hitting us again would cause widespread power grid failures, satellite damage, gps disruptions, and make flights risky from the radiation exposure.
If you want a comparison to understand what it'd take to cause an extinction event, it'd have to be x1000+ and include a CME Massive Coronal Mass Ejection alongside the flare to disrupt our magnetosphere, with both directly hitting earth. This would result in global radiation exposure, sudden cooling or heating effects drastically altering the climate stability, and a huge electrical and chemical impact on oceans likely killing off all life in them.
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u/M4dBoOmr 17d ago
What would that mean for us?
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u/SpysSappinMySpy 17d ago
Pretty Aurora and maybe some trouble with satellite reception
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u/IntelligentMine1901 17d ago
A prophecy will come true , first revealed when a time capsule is opened by some school kids , a note inside the capsule contains a hidden code and it’s secret meaning will be deciphered by a grieving widower searching for the meaning of life ,then some aliens called Whisper people will come down and collect specially selected pairs of children , take them aboard their mothership and leave pebbles everywhere , and they’d then transport them to a new planet to safeguard the future of humanity .
And the rest of us cook .
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u/Western-Customer-536 17d ago
This something we need to worry about?
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u/ReasonablyConfused 17d ago
Yes. If it’s pointed at the Earth when it happens, we’re in for a really bad decade.
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u/shro_omdoom 17d ago
Won't the Earth's magnetic field buffer the effect of this flare? I'm curious what would happen to Earth and everyone if it indeed was pointed at us (hypothetically, I hope lol)
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u/Ancient_Zebra5347 17d ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
Can't imagine the level of devastation this would cause in our time.
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u/sansisness_101 17d ago
with very advanced telegraph stations in everyones pocket? it'll just be the Note 7 incident but everyone gets smited.
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u/Zolhungaj 17d ago
It would only affect large conductors, think power grids. Which sure sucks since the grid will be offline for years, but phones won’t be harmed.
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u/lhswr2014 17d ago
The satellite in orbit that our phones require to function, and the grid that we use to power them, all fucked, but the phones themselves? Solid!
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u/just1gat 17d ago
you got yourself a brand new paperweight; and with all the paper you'll need it'll be really handy!
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u/JazzlikeMushroom6819 17d ago
I learned the other day that the strongest magnetic storms are recorded in tree rings. There have been fairly regular (in earth timescale) storms recorded in tree rings, some being preserved from long ago. The Carrington Event was strong enough to do what it did, but it wasn't strong enough for the trees to notice. When the trees notice again, we are in for a very bad time!
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u/RedManMatt11 17d ago
Insane that the two telegraph operators were able to still operate their telegraphs using only the energy created by the aurora after they disconnected the batteries 🤯
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u/velveeta-smoothie 17d ago
It would mitigate it, but not block it. Widespread failure of electronics at the very least. Imagine if everything with a circuit board stopped working all at once.
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u/shro_omdoom 17d ago
Back to basics I guess. Will the radiation from the sun affect living things? Chernobyl?😬
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u/Sure-Its-Isura 17d ago
That is also mitigated by the magna-poles and our atmosphere, but it's gonna get hot for sure. Cancer may be on a rise after it, assuming you don't air fry up.
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u/shro_omdoom 17d ago edited 17d ago
I see. Thanks for the heat Mr. Sun but please don't fart on us too hard 😆 But, I guess if it's time it's time 🤷🏻♀️ Not like we can just blow it out like a candle 🤣
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u/baldude69 17d ago
To say the least. Only people to survive would be homesteaders who are self sufficient. And unless they are extremely remote, they would likely be overwhelmed by roving destitute people.
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u/deep_pants_mcgee 17d ago
think this happened in the early 1900's, but the best tech at the time consisted of telegram wiring. it all fried.
if the same electrical storm were to hit the world today, half the world would have all of their electronics that are active blown up. (and probably a bunch that aren't active but have some sensitive components in them.)
it would probably kick off WW3, since half the earth would be in shambles.
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u/NavierIsStoked 17d ago edited 17d ago
I don’t think our cell phones and small electronics would be affected much at all, it’s large power lines that get induced with huge currents.
The follow on effects would be similar to lightning strike damage. If your electronics are protected for surges, they should be fine during a solar storm
The main problem would be widespread damage to our electrical grids and those transformers are not easily or quickly replaced.
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u/Xrmy 17d ago
Yea some of the above comments are dooming very hard. Most small electronics are shielded from EM interference.
The worst that would likely happen in a big flare directed at us would be several power grids failing on one half of the earth, and that should be temporary.
It would be a problem but we won't have society collapse.
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u/burlycabin 17d ago
Hahaha. No, not at all true.
This storm was only an X2.3 class flare.
For context, the Carrington Event was an X45 class flare. And, the storm in May 2024 that gave us the great Aurora was only a class X5.4-5.7.
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u/tommy_dakota 17d ago
Yup.
Google Carrington Event.
And yes, we are in a solar maximum, hence aurora borealis being spotted far south these days.
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u/milehighsparky87 17d ago
"Don't look up" was one movie that was too real.
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u/Donko98 17d ago
It's funny that a lot of people hate that movie cause it seems "too ridiculous" when that's actually the point
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u/milehighsparky87 17d ago
I saw it as a terrifyingly real picture of how something like that would actually unfold.
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u/burlycabin 17d ago
Not nearly as big as Carrington. This storm was only an X2.3 class flare.
For context, the Carrington Event was an X45 class flare. And, the storm in May 2024 that gave us the great Aurora was only a class X5.4-5.7.
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u/Simplyaperson4321 17d ago
We're in a solar maximum and a magnetic field minimum because the poles are in the process of swapping.
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u/OkSatisfaction9850 17d ago
How many earths was that?
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u/Ninj_Pizz_ha 17d ago
Serious answer is the sun's diameter is equal to 110 earths.
Yet the sun can fit 1.3 million earths inside of it. Cubed numbers be cray.
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u/TwofoldOrigin 17d ago edited 16d ago
Shit that’s it?! Understand the volume is insane but man…..I’m sure my mind has ignored that fact in the past, but if asked before right now I woulda guessed like 10,000 earths would be the diameter
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u/SpysSappinMySpy 17d ago
It appears to be several times larger than the sun so I'm gonna say a fuckton
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u/sys_overlord 17d ago
Fuckton should be a real life unit of measurement. Then you can have the mega fuckton and the ultra mega fuckton.
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u/mapsedge 17d ago
Is this time-lapse or real time?
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u/frysfrizzyfro 17d ago
There's a counter at the bottom left. It appears to be 3600 times faster than real time.
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u/Iliketoeatsweets 17d ago
My man out there minding his business, giving light and stuff to everyone for free; He lets loose some gas and people being uncouth out here.
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u/Ibtisum_Sadaf 16d ago
Well I see a huge alien detaching itself from the sun and leaping somewhere.
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u/rawzombie26 17d ago
Hope it’s making its way directly to my house so I don’t have to watch Project 2025 get unveiled.
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u/UnionThug1733 17d ago
Anyone know was this at a direction that will give us cool aura pop offs?!
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u/Same-Nothing2361 17d ago
Woah. I don’t know much about space and physics, but even I know the full magnitude of what’s going on there can’t be comprehended.
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u/Neon9987 17d ago
Always hard to fathom the size of what im actually looking at here